Where’s Brady – Update 3

The Lord has done so much in such a small amount of time…

Pastor Brady has been busy preparing to share the Gospel with all those who are working for them as well as their families. Part of the way he is doing this is by making it part of their payday. The men have been encouraged to bring their families with them, then after arriving to receive their money the Gospel is shared with them by a local pastor before they are paid. God is moving!

The Lord is also using Pastor Brady to change individual lives.

One such life is that of little Angelo. As you may have seen on his facebook post, Pastor Brady met a little boy with a a cleft pallet… after meeting him and taking a picture of him to remember to pray for him he logged into facebook one day and saw that a girl he went to high school with was working for an NGO in MANILLA and had posted a picture of a young boy who had just had a successful cleft pallet surgery. He then contacted her to find out if she had “room for one more?” She checked and found a way to get him in which meant Brady needed to find this random little boy again. He returned to where he had found him and the first boy he asked if he knew him was… HIS BROTHER!! The next day they had a five hour journey to Tacloban and would then fly Angelo and his Mother to Manila for his surgery… all expenses paid!

There is another man who walks for miles using sandals on them and he farms on his hands, picking up coconuts for a living… he is very poor and is unable to afford a wheelchair.

God provided a wheelchair for this guy!!! A wheel-chair bike with room for a cooler on the back so he can sell stuff from his chair!!! For this guy! Now, just have to find him!!

“I can’t do everything…but I can do something.” – Jerry Harding

Pastor Brady’s prayer request:

Please pray for some of the little boys that follow me everywhere back at my base.

Please pray for Angelo, pray for a strong and good recovery!!! He’ll be in Manila for a few weeks following his surgery to heal up.

Pray for the group I hired (all 55 of them). Pray that the seeds that have been planted in them would grow and God would continue to draw them!!!

Pray as I wrap things up here in our pay outs. Gotta move all our stuff 6 hours down the road to Tacloban. Pray that my exit would be honoring to the Lord and a blessing to everyone here. Pray I could bless all the staff and expats of Samaritans Purse as I go.

Where’s Brady – Week 2

The Lord has been at work in the Philippines! After arriving traveling nearly an entire day Pastor Brady and his team arrived in Samar. They were met with a people stricken with poverty and little spiritual training. He has hired many for the Samaritan’s Purse Cash for Work program he is over and is working to find a building to set up the SP base. Those he has hired will work as farmers, boat/canal builders, mangrove planters, or as laborers in other areas to improve the conditions of the island. Earlier this week Pastor Brady asked some of the locals what the children in the area dream of doing when they are older, the responses were sobering, “To eat three times a day… and maybe have some fun with friends. Finish school and occasionally you’ll find one who dreams of getting a job in another village.”

A note from Pastor Brady:

“This guy was one that I hired over a year ago immediately after typhoon Yolanda. We call him iron man. (He’s a welder). Glad to see he is still working with Samaritans purse in their warehouses. He was So pumped to see me! What a reunion!! He wanted to show me that he still wears the shirt I gave him and the belt. (He’s wearing the belt here). What a grateful spirit…makes me want to give more and more…reminds me of the truth Christ told us, ‘it TRULY is better to give than to receive’. I’ve seen several others who I hired and are still working with SP…such a blessed reunion! Man! Just think how awesome Heaven will be one day soon! People coming up and saying, ‘hey! (Fill in your name) it’s SO GOOD to see you again!!! Thank you so much for the water! Or the clothes or for letting me stay in your home when I had no where to stay or for sacrificing your time for me!! Or for that belt or that shirt…’ Man, that’s gonna be awesome. Jesus said, ‘as many of you who have done for the least of these, well, you’ve done it unto me!’ Wow.”

Praise Reports:

• They now have internet!!! This has been a huge need for the last several weeks and Pastor Brady is very thankful for all your prayers.
• This trip has been more balanced and Pastor Brady has actually had some free time to hangout with the he has hired.

How you can join us in praying:

• That there would be no “speed bumps” for the team sharing the Gospel.
• That the Gospel will take root in the 47,000 plus that will be attending the evangelistic gathering Pastor Brady is planning for next week.
• Discipleship for those who receive salvation.
• For the salvation of the rebels in the Island of Samar.

2013 Amherst Fall Festival & Celebration Preview

We had a blast this weekend at the Amherst Fall Festival & Fall Celebration… here are a few pictures of the prep work

 

Thank you to all the men that come to Base Camp on Thursday to help put up the ten for Sunday’s Fall Celebration… we could not have done it with out you!

 

 

Sam’s Club didn’t know what to do when we showed up to buy the food… we were overwhelmed with joy while buying hot dogs, hamburgers, and all the fixin’s for both the Festival & Celebration… there is nothing like eating while reaching out to the community.

 

Making signs so that everyone that passes by will know that everything was FREE and that everyone was welcomed to join in on the fun.

Pastor Bubba lead the volunteers in a prayer before the Fall Festival began.

Thank you to the band Seventy-One for coming out and playing the duration of the Festival.

Sunday Morning the tent was packed… Thank you LU Praise for leading us in worship.

 

 

The Pastoral Team is taking advantage of the fact that the tent is still up and the weather is beautiful… they are having their weekly meeting under the tent.

 

 

More pictures of the events will be on your facebook page, if you haven’t liked it yet be sure to do so at: https://www.facebook.com/OasisChurchAmherst?ref=hl